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- Programme
- Speakers
- Panels
- Panel 1, First Session: Historical Traditions of Arabic-Script Manuscripts in Africa
- Panel 1, Second Session: Historical Traditions of Arabic-Script Manuscripts in Africa
- Panel 2: Manuscript Libraries and Manuscript Heritage Centres in Africa
- Panel 3: African Arabic-Script Languages
- Panel 4: Cataloguing, Editing, Research, and Publishing
- Panel 5: Preservation, Conservation, and Digitization
- Workshops
- Workshop 1: The Islamic Manuscript Tradition of East Africa: Textual Traditions and Context
- Workshop 2: Manuscript Collection Practices in West Africa and the Making of Archives
- Workshop 3: Tarikh Zinder: Editing, Translation and Annotations
- Workshop 5: Preservation and Digitization Planning for Library Collections
- Workshop 6: Proactive Planning for the Protection of Archival Heritage in Crisis – From International Law to Practice
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Day 5
16 September 2021
This workshop will begin with a brief overview of the recommendations in international law to protect cultural heritage in crisis, in particular this 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. Although designed for armed conflict, the recommendations are equally valuable in other types of crisis, such as riots and terrorism. But how do those threats differ to the more-commonly considered risks from disasters? And what does that mean in practice?
Working in small groups, workshop attendees will complete a number of small exercises designed to develop awareness of the threats to archival heritage in crisis and some of the best ways to proactively mitigate them (rather than conservation, or post-disaster first aid).
Workshop Aims:
1. To develop understanding of international law and its relevance to heritage protection
2. To develop understanding of the threats to heritage in crisis, particularly violence-based threats, such as riots, terrorism and conflict
3. To develop understanding of some key measures to mitigate threats and to conduct simple mitigation exercises
The workshop will address the planning of physical and digital preservation activities and will focus on two main topics: (1) project planning, prioritization of activities and workflow, and how to find low-cost solutions for better preserving manuscript collections; (2) project planning for fundraising and providing some basic hints for outlining preservation and digitization project proposals.
Participants will be actively involved in an interactive session: through preparation of a case study, attendees will have the opportunity to exchange proposals and ideas on the above mentioned topic and get feedback from the workshop leader.
- Home
- Programme
- Speakers
- Panels
- Panel 1, First Session: Historical Traditions of Arabic-Script Manuscripts in Africa
- Panel 1, Second Session: Historical Traditions of Arabic-Script Manuscripts in Africa
- Panel 2: Manuscript Libraries and Manuscript Heritage Centres in Africa
- Panel 3: African Arabic-Script Languages
- Panel 4: Cataloguing, Editing, Research, and Publishing
- Panel 5: Preservation, Conservation, and Digitization
- Workshops
- Workshop 1: The Islamic Manuscript Tradition of East Africa: Textual Traditions and Context
- Workshop 2: Manuscript Collection Practices in West Africa and the Making of Archives
- Workshop 3: Tarikh Zinder: Editing, Translation and Annotations
- Workshop 5: Preservation and Digitization Planning for Library Collections
- Workshop 6: Proactive Planning for the Protection of Archival Heritage in Crisis – From International Law to Practice
- About Us
- English
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